DR WILL ALEXANDER

Dr Will Alexander obtained his medical degree from the University of Adelaide, and went on to specialise in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.  He trained in the major tertiary centres in Victoria, including The Alfred, Peter MacCallum, Royal Melbourne, Royal Children’s, and St Vincent’s hospitals.

 

He undertook further microsurgery training in Coimbatore, India; then visited various international surgeons to further hone his skills, including in Paris and Kuala Lumpur. He volunteered his time in both Sri Lanka and Vietnam; and has worked in Darwin Hospital to help fill Plastic Surgical consultant staff shortages. 

 

Will completed his Hand and Microsurgery fellowship at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, and more recently was awarded the prestigious American Society for Surgery of the Hand's (ASSH) International fellows' travelling fellowship, where he visited five prestigious Hand and Plastic Surgery centres across America. He was the winner of the 2024 Epworth Hospital's Travelling Doctor's Grant. 

 

He holds public appointments as a Consultant Surgeon at The Royal Children’s Hospital, St Vincent’s Hospital, and Monash Children's Hospital.  He is a member of the Victorian Hand Surgery Associates (VHSA), and consults in the Fitzroy rooms.  He is a regular visiting surgeon at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Kew, as well as Epworth Freemasons Albert St.

 

Will has sub-specialised in adult and paediatric hand surgery, including nerve and micro-surgery.  He maintains a keen interest in other aspects of Plastic and Reconstructive surgery, in particular skin surgery (cancer management, reconstructive).

 

He has presented and published his research extensively on the national and international surgical forum, on a broad range of topics including nerve, trauma, burns, and cancer surgery. Most recently, he was an invited speaker at the 2023 combined hand surgery conference for American and Australian Hand Surgery societies, discussing advances in upper limb surgery in the setting of spasticity and cerebral palsy. He teaches junior doctors and surgeons regularly and has moderated numerous educational sessions for the Aus/NZ hand surgery fellows, on various topics. 

 

He is an accredited Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons, a member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, and a member of the Indigenous Health Committee at RACS. 

 

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